"Once you get to more than one of the following, you've got a problem: home ownership, bitter breakup, long-term relationship, state-specific laws on property division, laws on property division that vary based on the type of relationship, intimate partner abuse[...]"

*SCREEEEECH*

I have had my own tiny, tiny taste of the sort of hell that results when a malignant person has a legal claim to what's yours, but it's enough to know how that can get really nasty, really fast.

I hope your partner gets the use of their house back with minimal delays or fuckery. Thank goodness they're safe.